Philips  LCD TV 42

Excite your senses

Immerse yourself in a captivating experience. Featuring Perfect Pixel HD Engine, this TV combines Perfect Motion Sharpness, Perfect Colors and Perfect Contrast - lighting up your viewing experience
 

Breathtaking perfect pictures

Breathtaking perfect pictures

Easy to connect and enjoy

Easy to connect and enjoy

Perfect Pixel HD Engine for unrivalled sharpness and clarity

Perfect Pixel HD Engine for unrivalled sharpness and clarity

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HD ready 1080p for highest quality display of Full HD images

HD ready 1080p for highest quality display of Full HD images

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Enjoy photo and music playback via USB

Enjoy photo and music playback via USB

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4 HDMI inputs for full digital HD connection in one cable

4 HDMI inputs for full digital HD connection in one cable

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Features

Breathtaking perfect pictures
Perfect Pixel HD Engine for unrivalled sharpness and clarity

Perfect Pixel HD Engine for unrivalled sharpness and clarity

Experience unrivalled sharpness and clarity with Perfect Pixel HD Engine. Each pixel of the picture is enhanced to better match the surrounding pixels, resulting in a more natural picture. The result is a unique combination of sharpness, natural detail, vivid colors superior contrast and smooth natural motion whatever you are watching. Clean and razor sharp images result from artifact and noise detection and reduction in all content sources - from multimedia to standard TV.

HD ready 1080p for highest quality display of Full HD images

HD ready 1080p for highest quality display of Full HD images

Enjoy the exceptional picture quality of Full High Definition TV signals of HD sources like HDTV broadcast, or Blu-ray DVD. HD ready 1080p is a protected label that offers picture quality far beyond that of ordinairy HD Ready. It conforms to strict standards laid out by EICTA to offer a Full HD screen that displays the benefits of resolution and picture quality of a Full HD 1920x1080p High Definition TV signal. It has a universal connection for both analog YPbPr and uncompressed Digital connection of DVI or HDMI, supporting HDCP. It can display 1080p progressive signals at 24, 50 and 60Hz.

Perfect Natural Motion for ultra smooth Full HD movies

Perfect Natural Motion for ultra smooth Full HD movies

Enjoy the action without any judder. Perfect Natural Motion estimates motion in the picture and corrects juddering movements in both broadcast and pre-recorded movie material (including 1080p movies and 24p True Cinema on Blu-ray and DVD). The result is even smoother and quieter pictures with excellent sharpness, regardless of how quick the action gets on-screen. Enjoy motion performance that surpasses cinema quality!

Wide Color Gamut LCD display for brilliant colors

Wide Color Gamut LCD display for brilliant colors

x.v.Color ensures realistic color reproduction, accurately capturing every tint, hue and depth in order to offer a wide color range that includes almost twice as many colors as sRGB color space. x.v.Color produces color variations very close to what the human eye can recognize – it even enhances/improves the quality of High Definition video material. Televisions compliant with x.v.Color will reproduce images in almost the same quality as when it was recorded.

100Hz Clear LCD, 2ms performance for superb motion sharpness

100Hz Clear LCD, 2ms performance for superb motion sharpness

100Hz Clear LCD creates extreme motion sharpness for clear and vibrant images even with fast on-screen motion. The Double Frame Rate Insertion works with a high 100Hz refresh rate. It increases the sharpness of motion reproduction to more than twice that of conventional LCD, resulting in a performance with a response time of 2 milliseconds (measured in Perceived Blur-Edge-Width; BEW). This unique Philips technology brings motion sharpness of LCD displays to an unprecedented level.

2250 trillion colors processing

2250 trillion colors processing

Vibrant and natural images from most advanced color processing. The 17 bit color booster optimises each of the 3 color channels (RGB) , a total processing power of 2250 trillion colors. It produces more vibrant colors while retaining excellent sharpness. The advanced algorithms detect skin tones and subtle color shades, and processes these to give most natural colors.

Dynamic contrast 30000:1 for incredible rich black details

Dynamic contrast 30000:1 for incredible rich black details

You want the LCD flat display with the highest contrast and most vibrant images. Philips advanced video processing combined with unique extreme dimming and backlight boosting technology results in vibrant images. Dynamic Contrast will increase the contrast with excellent blacklevel and accurate rendition of dark shades and colors. It gives a bright, lifelike picture with high contrast and vibrant colors.

Specifications

Picture/Display
Aspect ratio Widescreen
Brightness 500 cd/m²
Dynamic screen contrast 30.000:1
Response time (typical) 2 (BEW equiv.) ms
Viewing angle 176º (H) / 176º (V)
Diagonal screen size (inch) 42 inch
Diagonal screen size (metric) 107 cm
Display screen type LCD Full HD W-UXGA Act. matrix
Panel resolution 1920x1080p
Picture enhancement Perfect Pixel HD Engine, Perfect Natural Motion, Perfect Contrast, Perfect Colors, Wide Color Gamut display, 3/2 - 2/2 motion pull down, 3D Combfilter, Active Control + Light sensor, 100Hz Clear LCD, Jagged Line Suppression, Progressive Scan, 1080p 24/25/30Hz processing, 1080p 50/60Hz processing
Screen enhancement Anti-Reflection coated screen
Color processing 2250 trillion colors 17bit RGB
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